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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 15
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Azariah prophesies Judah shall prosper if people keep the commandments—Asa puts away false worship in Judah—Many from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon migrate to Judah—People covenant to serve the Lord and are blessed.
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And</span> the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
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And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.
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Now for a long season Israel <i>hath been</i> without the true God, and without a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Deut. 33: 10; 2 Chr. 17: 9; 2 Ne. 9: 48; TG Teachers.">teaching</a> priest, and without law.
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But when they in their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adversity.">trouble</a> did turn unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/15/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Access to.">sought</a> him, he was found of them.
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And in those times <i>there was</i> no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations <i>were</i> upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
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And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Good Works.">work</a> shall be rewarded.
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And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that <i>was</i> before the porch of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/9a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE resident aliens; Alma 10: 3.">strangers</a> with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God <i>was</i> with him.
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So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
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And they offered unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> the same time, of the spoil <i>which</i> they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
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And they entered into a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 5: 5 (2, 5).">covenant</a> to seek the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
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That whosoever would not seek the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
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And they sware unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB shofarim; horns.">cornets</a>.
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And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 88: 63.">found</a> of them: and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> gave them rest round about.
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&#182; And also <i>concerning</i> Maachah the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/15/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE grandmother.">mother</a> of Asa the king, he removed her from <i>being</i> queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped <i>it,</i> and burnt <i>it</i> at the brook Kidron.
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But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
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&#182; And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
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And there was no <i>more</i> war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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